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From: marc@Apple.COM (Mark Dawson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Reasonably priced IIfx???
Message-ID: <40178@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 10 Apr 90 14:28:03 GMT
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In article <7616@goofy.Apple.COM> rmh@apple.com (Rick Holzgrafe) writes:
>Be careful about RAM. I'm not the expert (so maybe I shouldn't speak up) 
>but I think the IIfx requires faster RAM than a II or IIx (and maybe even 
>a IIci). You can't assume that your used II has RAM that will work in the 
>IIfx.
>
No RAM (SIMMs) from any other Mac machine will work in the fx--it requires  a
different SIMM (same as the LaserWriter); I believe that it requires 80ns RAM
(just like the IIci).  I've heard that 3rd parties have started selling this
memory; can anyone confirm this?

Mark



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